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Amid all the turmoil of 2026, some may yearn to dial the culture back to 2016 — in all its rainbow-saturated, Rio de Janeiro Instagram-filtered glory.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Does Sir Idris Elba have the King on speed dial?

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

The charity said that "despite some progress" the Scottish government's existing plans "will not deliver the scale of change needed to shift the dial."

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Making more of it isn’t as easy as turning a dial: refineries transform crude into various fuels at fixed proportions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Once a week or so, if I found a quiet moment, I’d pick up the phone and dial the number for our apartment on Euclid.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

When Lane Kiffin dials a number, the person on the other end usually answers and takes the call.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

Subscriptions could drive another $7 billion in revenue, Nowak said, and $2 of earnings growth, as the group begins “turning emerging monetization dials and creating new costs to compete for audiences and wallet share.”

From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026

Extend an arm without a slight bend and it can lock straight out until the trainer dials down the machine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026

Customers outside Iran call his Turkish phone on WhatsApp and he then dials their loved ones on his Iranian mobile.

From BBC ● Mar. 15, 2026

Despite my immediate protests, she dials his number and, when he answers, says she has a friend in town that she wants him to meet.

From "Every Day" by David Levithan

Wall Street traders dialed up their bets that the Fed may indeed raise rates when officials meet in two weeks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

By the time Skubal faced Baldwin again, with two outs in the third, his whole arsenal was dialed in.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

She dialed the Comanche Police Department, and within minutes, a sheriff’s deputy arrived, followed by emergency responders.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Recent numbers from Goldman Sachs’s prime brokerage unit showed equity-focused hedge funds have dialed back their net exposure to stocks to some of the lowest levels of the past year.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

Knowing he shouldn’t, Sergei dialed the number of the government dacha down the road.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

She said she was "incredibly traumatised and not able to summon help", then dialled 999 in desperation.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

The suspect called the police almost an hour before a farmer also dialled 999 after seeing men in balaclavas.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

The central bank also dialled down its threat of interventions to weaken the franc by removing its reference to having an “increased willingness” to act.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

"They phoned the airbase police, who didn't answer the phone. It just rang out so she dialled 999," he told the BBC.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

He then picked up the phone without any perceptible hesitation and dialled a local number.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger

Vodafone VOD -1.68%decrease; red down pointing triangle Group is dialing up its cost-savings target for its U.K. unit VodafoneThree, saying it expects the business to be a key driver of the group’s midterm ambitions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Brock Purdy is on fire and Kyle Shanahan is dialing it up.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

They were dialing back those expectations late-morning Wednesday to a 37.1% probability, after a reading on August inflation from the personal consumption expenditures price index showed that its year-over-year climb eased to 3.4%.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

But rather than dialing anything back, the big players are just revving their engines more and more.

From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026

There are currently about 245,000 Indians answering phones from all over the world or dialing out to solicit people for credit cards or cell phone bargains or overdue bills.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman

The plot for Behind was inspired by "butt dialling", accidentally calling someone from a phone placed in a back pocket.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Saturday she believed US President Donald Trump still desires to own Greenland despite dialling back his recent threats to seize it by force.

From Barron's ● Feb. 14, 2026

"However, there is clearly concern that Rightmove is jumping on the bandwagon in dialling up its AI spending."

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2025

Organisers of the youth-led protest movement known as GenZ 212 - the number refers to Morocco's international dialling code - have distanced themselves from the violence.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2025

When he had finished dialling, he picked up his handkerchief from the desk and put it over the mouthpiece, quite loosely and mounted rather high.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger